“How Can We Determine the Location, Size and Climate Effects
of Volcanic Eruptions During the Past 2000 Years?”
Dallas Abbott
Originally presented 5 May 2018
https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=341090
We are please to welcome back Dallas Abbott for her 16th E2C presentation.
Dallas will share recent investigations into what we can learn about volcanic eruptions from historical, tree ring and ice core data. Research from the last 150 Years can help us figure out the past 2000 years of climate and volcanic history. Her talk will cover how we see events expressed in historical accounts of sunspots; star, solar and lunar visibility and color; and rings around the Sun (Bishop’s rings), even from locations far from the volcanic eruption. It will also cover evidence of volcanic eruptions in ice cores, sulfate data, and tree rings, and how we can use these proxies of drought, atmospheric clarity and unseasonable cold to understand how and when volcanic eruptions affect the climate.
Dallas is an Adjunct Research Scientist and Intern Program Coordinator here at Lamont. She has shared discoveries from her widespread investigations in every E2C series since 2002.
View the introductory slideshow (pptx) (pdf)
View Dallas’ slideshow
Selected educational resources
“Living with Volcanoes: An Introduction to Geoarcheology”
“SERC Site Guide: Volcanoes”
NOAA National Center for Environmental Information “Volcanic Date and Information”
“Historical Records Used to Research Volcanic Eruption Climate Impacts”
USGS Volcanoes
Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Project
Oregon State University Volcano World
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2010/nov/11/pompeii-ruins-archaeology-italy
“Volcano: Turner to Warhol”
